Ela activities

Get your students reading and writing this summer with these fun and engaging enrichment activities for elementary grades.

Our principal has really been encouraging us to add more writing into our daily lesson plans. "They should be writing all day long" he tells us. The research is there to back him up. I bumped into this Roll and Retell page from Fun In First on Pinterest awhile back and finally figured out how to add it to our learning day. I printed and laminated four copies of the Roll and Retell page to hand out to each of my four table groups. After a round of Daily 5 I handed them out. I also gave each…

Filler Activities for ELA (blog post) What can you do with five extra minutes in secondary ELA? Here are a few ideas to engage students until the bell.

A fun and engaing, problem solving spelling word game. No prep - simply print and play to learn. Use with any spelling word list.

Try this free, fun, and interactive middle school ELA games in your classroom to teach grammar and literacy ELA skills!

Creative lesson plans are important in secondary ELA because they challenge students to go beyond the obvious and think outside the box. Creative lessons plans are also highly engaging for struggling and gifted students. This list of activities encourages creative thinking and growth mindset all

This post explains how teachers can use an academic version of the highly engaging Spoons game to review concepts. Free games included!

Peak into Room 213's lesson plans: her kids are learning about prewriting & are brainstorming with candy. They are also working on speaking & listening.

It's time to think beyond Mad Libs.

Learning new words is like adding to your writing toolbox.